Being with you like this and having your listening and permission to
ask you anything is a
privilege.
That's not merely something I'm saying about this opportunity: it's the
only thing worth saying which even comes close to
describing what's available here: totally open listening and absolute
freedom. Saying anything else is a superfluous, even unnecessary
commentary.

Ten Questions With No Already Always Answers

1)

In awe, I see what you're accomplishing now. I look and see the way
what you're accomplishing now is impacting the future. But really
that's just my own
interpretation
of the way what you're accomplishing now is impacting the future.
In other words, that's just my own
interpretation
of your
inexorable
legacy. I want to know what your legacy, the way you
intend it to be, will be - aside from what I already know your
legacy will be.

I want to know:

"Aside from what your friends know about you, aside from
your legacy of transformation, for what would you most like to be
remembered?"

2)

It's been said forgiving is "giving up the right to resent".
Forgiving isn't always easy. But then again, giving up the right to
resent isn't always easy either. It seems to me forgiving with ease
requires recognizing something profound in people, while at the
same time coming from a profound place in yourself. I assert when
you re-presence the profound in others while coming
from the profound in yourself, forgiving becomes easy and
natural ie it simply unfolds in the process of life itself.

Please speak to this.

"On what do you draw to forgive people who are hardest to
forgive?"

3)

Since its inception your work has taken on a myriad forms. It's
been decades since there was only one flagship course whose success
could be measured simply by what
graduates
said about its impact in their lives. Now there are lots and lots
of courses and programs deploying many varied forms of expressions
impacting millions of people in hundreds of countries.
Conversations For
Transformation
have found their way into the upper business boardrooms, up to the
top academic
echelons,
and on to the highest spiritual, religious, and philosophical
podiums. As far as I can tell, determining success in each of these
vastly differing media requires separate and specific statistics
and tallies. I'd be interested to know if you've simplified this
process by combining all of them into one single universal
measurement of success.

What's your evidence it's all working?

"By what measure do you personally determine the difference
your work makes globally?"

4)

True power is often misunderstood, quite aside from the fact that
true power is rare. I've never had a problem with your power. I've
never seen it misused or inappropriately applied. Today, now that
the global listening for transformation and possibility is wide
open, we're seeing what I like to call sweeter
deliveries by you. But in the early days when the general listening
wasn't as open, we saw more of a breaking past, even a
breaking into its stuckness, into its
fixedness with - I might say - inspired and
brilliantly effective results. Some people couldn't contain this
approach. It became cannon fodder for fabled criticism.

Personally I experienced it as wonderful theatre, as riveting
drama. "If you make an omelet, you have to break a few
eggs", and I love having
breakfast
with you.

"How do you respond to accusations of people who blur your
precisely applied ruthless compassion with egomania?"

5)

The issues to which transformation can be brought, completely
altering their probable almost certain future in the world, are
legion. How do we prioritize them? There's only so much work we can
do in one day. Where do we begin? To which issues do we assign
resources first? How do we determine which wants and needs can,
should, and must wait?

"What's the one outcome in the world's current probable
almost certain future you most passionately want to transform
before it's too late?"

6)

Do you have
heroes?
I've considered who my own
heroes
are (and I do have people I consider to be
heroes).
But if the
context
in which a
hero
is evaluated is one in which I consider their
greatness eclipses my own natural greatness as a human being, the
respect and acknowledgement in designating
heroes
quickly
devolves
into nothing more than a kind of immature, naïve
"starstruck"-ness.

Now that the background listening is set,

"Looking back through time until human beings first appeared
on
Planet Earth,
who are the people you admire most?"

7)

My life is inspired by you. I'm clear about it. It's more than that
actually. It's to the degree I tell the truth about it, the better
my life works - not just for me but also for everyone I interact
with. There's a new possibility present and tangible
for everyone I interact with out of my relationship with you. I
know that, and even if they don't know that or don't get
it in quite so many words, I assert that's the wanted
quality they're getting from me.

I'm wondering if this is how it shows up for you too. In other
words, even though it's you who are its inspiration (which means to
me you've already got it), does what I do bring forth a new
possibility for you too? I'm wondering exactly how indiscriminating
and borderless this quality is.

Since I met you, my entire notion of what it is to get away,
of what it is to take a break has shifted. To be sure, I like to
travel and to discover new places. But the allure of taking a
vacation in order to get away, in order
to take a break has declined drastically. I love where I
am (and by that I mean wherever I am). I'm
doing what I love doing. My erstwhile yearning to take a vacation
in order to get away and to take a break doesn't grip me as it once
did. If I do take a vacation, its allure is the opportunity to
write
Conversations For
Transformation
in another environment. In other words, when it comes down to it I
never get away: who I really am comes with me
everywhere I go.

Having said that,

"Do you take vacations? If so, where do you like to go? If
not, what do you do to relax?"

9)

Recognition comes in various forms: having a major bridge named
after you, being awarded a Nobel prize, getting a fifteen minute
sustained foot stomping hand clapping whistling cheering standing
ovation from a stadium full of people who were outright skeptical
of you to begin with.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if someday you also got the first
two.

Seriously though,

"What's the most memorable, validating acknowledgement of
your work you've ever gotten?"

10)

It's been said "When I don't know who I am, I serve you; when I
know who I am, I am you.".

Interviewing anyone else presupposes they'll answer my questions. Once
they've answered my questions, only then could I say the intention of
the interview is fulfilled and complete.

Interviewing you only presupposes interviewing you. Once I've
asked my questions, then the intention of the interview is already
fulfilled and complete. You're free to answer all of my questions or
none of my questions or some of my questions. I've got no attachment to
any particular number of answers. It's my experience of
you I get interviewing you which actually gives the answer to any of my
questions.